Libya

Lib·y·a

(lĭb′ē-ə)

A country of northern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea. Controlled at various times by Carthage, Rome, Arabia, and Spain, the area was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1551 to 1911. It was subsequently seized by Italy and became an Italian colony during World War II, achieving independence as a kingdom in 1951. In 1969 Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi took power in a coup d'état, establishing a socialist dictatorship. Tripoli is the capital and the largest city.

Libya

(ˈlɪbɪə)

n

(Placename) a republic in N Africa, on the Mediterranean: became an Italian colony in 1912; divided after World War II into Tripolitania and Cyrenaica (under British administration) and Fezzan (under French); gained independence in 1951; monarchy overthrown by a military junta led by Colonel Gaddafi in 1969; Gaddafi's authoritarian regime overthrown in 2011 following a popular uprising. It consists almost wholly of desert and is a major exporter of oil. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: (Sunni) Muslim. Currency: Libyan dinar. Capital: Tripoli. Pop: 6 002 347 (2013 est). Area: 1 760 000 sq km (680 000 sq miles). Official name: Dawlat Libya

Aa "The Kingdom of Morocco, which is constantly calling for constructive dialogue to rise above crises and disputes, expresses its full and brotherly solidarity with the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and urges, within the framework of mutual respect between States and international ways and customs, the overcoming of this situation," a statement of the Foreign ministry said.

Forty years after the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was established, you're not likely to find college students underlining passages in the Green Book, Qaddafi's famously nutty exegesis on something called "third international theory" Sure, there were brief flirtations with both the extreme right and the extreme left in England, with the neo-fascist National Front attempting to enlist Libya's financial support (and getting a pallet of Green Books for its trouble) and the pro-Soviet miners union leader Arthur Scargill actually succeeding in securing both moral and financial support from the Qaddafi regime.

ISLAMABAD, 29 April , 2009 (Frontier Star) --On the invitation of Libyan leader Muammar Al Qaddafi, President Asif Ali Zardari will pay a State Visit to the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 30 April to 2 May 2009.

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